Anomalon, Panzer, 1803

Heydari, Maryam Zardouei, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Mokhtari, Azizollah & Schwarz, Martin, 2020, The genus Anomalon Panzer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) of Iran, with description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 662, pp. 1-19 : 16

Key to species of Anomalon occurring in Iran

1. Marginal cell about 1.0 × as long as its distance from the end of the wing ( Fig. 3A); temple not constricted behind eyes, about 0.9 × as wide as the compound eye in lateral view ( Fig. 2C) ........... .................................................................................................................... A. amseli ( Hedwig, 1961)

– Marginal cell about 2.0 × as long as its distance from the end of the wing ( Figs 5A, 7A, 9A); temple constricted behind eyes, about 0.45–0.65 × as wide as the compound eye in lateral view ( Figs 4C, 6C, 8C) .............................................................................................................................................. 2

2. Clypeus without a pair of lateromedian apical teeth ( Fig. 6B); pronotum completely striate and without an impunctate area behind the epomia; epicnemial carina broken at the level of the sternaulus (with a branch to the lower posterior corner of the pronotum) ( Fig. 6D) ........................................... .......................................................................................................... A. cruentatum (Geoffroy, 1785)

– Clypeus with a pair of lateromedian apical teeth ( Figs 4B, 8B); pronotum posteriorly not striate and with an impunctate area behind the epomia; epicnemial carina not broken at the level of the sternaulus (without a branch to the lower posterior corner of the pronotum) ( Figs 4D, 8D) ........... 3

3. Ocelli small, the diameter of a lateral ocellus shorter than the distance between the lateral ocellus and the margin of the eye ( Fig. 4A); ovipositor sheath about 1.1 × as long as the hind tibia ( Fig. 5B) ... ............................................................................................................... A. chinense ( Kokujev, 1915)

– Ocelli larger, the diameter of a lateral ocellus as long as the distance between the lateral ocellus and the margin of the eye ( Fig. 8A); ovipositor sheath about 0.8 × as long as the hind tibia ( Fig. 9B) ... ......................................................................................... A. narinae Zardouei & Rakhshani sp. nov.